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12/21/2010

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Capitalism.
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- System in which most buisness are privately owned.
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Homestead Act
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Allowed any head of the household over 21 to claim 160 acrees of land
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Hoovervilles -
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rundown towns aurring the depression
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Muckrackers
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- Term coined for journalists who "racked up" And exposed corruption and problems of society
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Progessivisim-
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group of reform movements of that late 1800's that fovused on urban problems
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Clayton Antitrust Act-
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prohibited companies from buying stock from competing companies
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Imperialism
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- Practice of extending nations power by gaining territories for empire
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Great Depression
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- crash of the stock market
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Flapper
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- Rebelious young women of the 1920;s
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Sitting bull
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Sitting bull - Native american leader who was leader of the rioux he resisted goverment
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Bayonet Constitution
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- Constitution the king of hawai was forced to sign which severly restricted his power and depriving hawaiians to vote
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Red Scale -
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Widespread fear of communism
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Federal Reserve act-
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law that created fund from which banks could borrow to prevent collapse during financial panic
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Yellow Journalism
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- Reporting of exxaggerated stories in newspapers to increase sales.
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John Rockefeller
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- started Oil Reinery
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DeLome Letter-
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Ridiculed President Mckinley and outraged americans
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Allied Powers
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- alliance Between Britain,france, and Russia: Later joined by united states
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U-Boats "
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- Small submarines named after germans word untersboot which means "Under Sea Boat
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Upton Sinclair
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- Wrote the book "The Jungle" on meat packing plant
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Sussex Pledge-
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Pledge for germany to not sink merchant vessles "without Warning"
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Communism -
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- Equal distribution of wealth and the end of all private property
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Booker T Washingon
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- Black educator and civil rights leader
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Liberty Bonds
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- Bonds that american citizens bought that Helped to pay for the cost of WWI
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Funamentulism-
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Belief in literal interpritation of a particular belief in literal interpritation of a particular religons holy books
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
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- German emperor who helped cause WWO with militariasm
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William Randolph Hurst
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- Writed who wrote about spanish american War
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League Of nations -
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International body of nations formed in 1919 to prevent wars
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Jim Crow Laws-
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Laws that inforcce segrigation in the southern states
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Treaty of Versailles
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- Treaty ending WWI and making germany pay for war repairs
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Hariem Renaissance
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- Blossoming of african american art and literature that began in 1920s
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Jose Marti
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Cuban independence fighter killed in battle became a symbol of freedom in cuba
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Dollar Diplomacy
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- Policy of influencing latin american through economic intervention
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Langston Hughes
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- African American Poet influenced Jazz major impaction on hour renissance
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Central Powers
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- Alliance between German, Austria hungary and ottoman empire
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Black Tuesday -
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Day stock market crashed
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Enukui Aguinaldo
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- President of Philippine republic
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Reconstruction
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The time when the united states made policies to rebuild the south
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Zimmeran Note
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- Telegram that proposed an alliance between germany and mexico
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Woodrow Wilson
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- 28th president
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New Deal
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F.D.R's plans to fix america after the great depression
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W.E.B DuBois
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- African american educator and writed help founded NAAXP and led Niagara movement
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Theodore
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- 26th president
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